Values November 27, 2006
Posted by Brian in : Single Status, Uncategorized , trackbackJill posted a comment on Friday about support staff in her school being in chaos after being told of their new salaries. As a parent she fears that key members of the support staff may end up looking for employment elsewhere and that will lead to a drop in standards. I think Jill is right to be worried for it is the lower paid support workers that seem to be affected regardless of their geography. A lot of them may very well choose to leave.
The importance of good, a well trained, efficient, motivated support staff to the running of a school is critical and often overlooked. Many support staff feel undervalued and distanced from not only the local authority but also other council workers because of their unique working environment. If good staff leave because they are facing a pay cut and subsequently feel they are not valued it can only be a bad thing not only for the councils, schools and staff but ultimately because the pupils that attend our schools deserve only the best.
All support staff in schools work very hard to aid the education of the generations to come. At the moment, the way that many staff have been evaluated, very little account of the complexity of that task has been taken on board.
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Support staff play a crucial role in our schools. The quality of education we provide is fundamentally connected to their professionalism and commitment